“It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.”
William James
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
T.S. Eliot
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
Andre Gide
“The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.”
Leo F. Buscaglia
“Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.”
Andre Malraux
“To be alive at all involves some risk.”
Harold Macmillan
“He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.”
Paul Tillich